NewsContent:2014/Day 009/MSM
Source: Compiled from several chronologies, listed here
News Chronology for Sunday, 16 March 2014
- March 16, 2014
- - Hishammuddin said no ransom demanded over the missing Flight MH370. Hence, the police were looking into four aspects of investigation.
On the SAR, he said Malaysian officials were liaising with 15 countries along the northern and southern corridors for assistance, in relation to the missing aircraft.
All MAS ground staff, engineers involved in handling the MH370 aircraft were under investigation by the police.
- Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said missing MH370 was investigated under Section 130 (C) Penal Code for hijacking, terrorism and sabotage offences, Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 and Aviation Offences Act 2003.
Police seized flight simulator from the house of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the pilot of the missing MH370.
ABC Malaysia calls for help from 25 countries as the search for missing flight MH370 expands across a vast area of land and ocean.
The US, France and China were all asked for more satellite information to help find the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet.
The search area covers large tracts of land and sea across 11 countries and Malaysia has asked for more ships and spotter planes.
"It is our hope that parties that can be of assistance to us can come forward and help us to narrow the search," Malaysia's transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein said.
Australia's Defence Force Chief, General David Hurley, said an Australian RAAF Orion had commenced searching the Indian Ocean to the north and west of the Cocos Islands.
•Pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah is picture wearing a T-shirt with a Democracy is Dead slogan, sparking fears he could have hijacked the plane as an anti-government protest.</A>
•The number of countries involved in the search increased from 14 to 25, as Malaysian authorities revealed all passengers, crew and ground staff associated with the flight were under investigation.
•Investigators revealed a flight simulator had been found at Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah's home, and taken away for further analysis.
•At a press conference, it was suggested that Flight MH370 could have been on the ground when it sent its final satellite signal, and that its transmission system was switched off after its final communication with ground control.